Volume V, Issue 3 |
|
March 30, 1996
|
Do you feel April fresh? Greetings and
Welcome, once again, to The Rocky Horror
Picture Show. We are your home cast here
at the Art Theatre, the World Famous,
Midnight insanity! We'd like to welcome back
all you regulars, and sneer (playfully) at all
you virgins!!! With the weather warming up,
Midnight insanity has a few changes
planned, which we'll get to in just a bit. Oh,
and yes, we're certainly fresh, but it doesn't
have a thing to do with April.
It had to happen. All good things must eventually come to an end, and tonight, we bid farewell to one of our cast founders, Kristine. Kristine, and a troupe of Laguna Beach High-Schoolers founded Midnight Insanity way back in January of 1988. They began performing Rocky at the famed Balboa Theatre in Newport Beach. Through the years, Kristine has taken part in just about every event in Midnight insanity's 8+ years. From the 15th Anniversary in Los Angeles (as part of the Pre-Show), through our own 18th Anniversary Convention (and AIDS benefit), to finally the 20th Anniversary last year. She oversaw the transition from the Balboa to our new home, here at the Art. She has spent countless hours choreographing some of the best |
Special Performances the World of
Rocky has ever seen. She has been
everywhere that Midnight Insanity staked
its claim in this world. Her presence will
certainly be missed. Kristine spent the last
couple years performing the role Trixie, but
tonight she gives you her farewell
performance, in her original role of Magenta.
Yeah we know, it rained this week. As
erratic as the weather has been, a warming
trend shall be upon us. With that in mind,
Midnight insanity has decided to spend a
little time on the beach. Well, actually, most
of us wouldn't be caught dead at the beach,
or anywhere with an abundance of sunlight,
so instead we thought we'd bring the beach
to us! The last Saturday of the month is
the time to wear skimpy clothing. Few
things are skimpier than the, er, "clothing"
you wear on the beach. So come on down
dressed in your latest swimwear! No David
Hasselhoff look-alikes, please!
Oh yes, it's here again! April Fools brings us perhaps the most foolish night on Midnight Insanity's stage! Next week is our Tacky Horror performance! Think of it as cross- dressing, taken to far beyond appropriate extremes. Sometimes called "switch night", |
Midnight Insanity cast members have
swapped parts for the night and will be
playing roles you've tried not to imagine!!!
As always, we urge *you* to join in on the
fun. Dig out some clothes of the opposite
gender and cross-dress with us on this
ludicrous night. And if that's not enough of
an incentive, how about a Special
Performance? Come down and find out who
gets shot!!!
The mystery has been solved! To answer
that age-old question of, "What the fuck is
a Magentr?" Well, apparently, it is the plural
version of Magenta. Midnight Insanity, in
about a two-month span, brings to you no
less than *SIX* different Magentr on our
stage. That's right, this includes our
regulars, Becky and Amanda, a guest
performance from Kym, tonight's farewell
performance from Kristine, an upcoming
guest performance from Julie, and next
week's "Tacky Horror" performance from
none other than Tiiinyyyyyyy Tiiiiim!!! So is
Magentr really the plural version of
Magenta? I dunno, go ask Webster . . .
Parties! Do those Rocky people do *anything* else? Well, this is that once-a- year bash (except for last year) where weirdos from all across the country come together and get even weirder. That's right, it's time for Rocky Horror's 21st Anniversary!!! And what a better place to hold it than the BlackJack capital of the world? The Las Vegas folks are hosting the 21st Anniversary Convention on the weekend of June 14th/15th. Midnight Insanity, of |
course, will be attending. If
you're interested, see the cast for details.
Finally!!! This year, our own Susan Sarandon
walked away a winner. A winner of an Oscar,
something for which she's been nominated
FOUR times before (1980's Atlantic City,
1991's Thelma and Louise, 1992's Lorenzo
Oil, and 1994's The Client), and four times
lost. The fifth time, 1995's Dead Man
Walking, she finally won! This year, she takes
the Oscar for Best Actress for her role as
Sister Helen Prejean in, "Dead Man Walking".
Mucho congratulations, Susan!
We'd like to thank everybody who stood by
us during a trying month; The theatre
management and owners, for standing
behind us and putting forth the extra effort
to keep us afloat; Kristine, for all the effort
she has put in over the years; Everybody
who helped out with the "She's a Beauty"
Special Performance, which finally made it to
the stage for February's Lingerie Night; Joe,
our ultra-cool "Waiter from Hell", who comes
down to see us perform *every fucking week*
. . . and puts up with us on Sundays to
boot!; Julie (Happy Birthday!), our waitress
at the Seal Beach Denny's, who we keep very
busy with our after-the-show caffeine fits;
and once again, our always faithful,
extremely demented, loud, rude, obnoxious,
they-can-take-my-Rocky--ticket-away-
from-me-when-they-pry-it--out-of-my-
cold--dead-hand, loving audience, who won't
let anything come between them and their
fishnets, Dammit (Janet)!
|